We rented a copy of Borat. Neither of us found it to be 'pee in your pants funny' as was claimed. Most of it was rather sophomoric, but there were a few spots that were funny. On a scale of 1-4, I'd give it about a 1.5.

Christ you know it ain't easy,You know how hard it can be.The way things are goingThey're gonna crucify me.----------
Ballad of John and Yoko

I watched Glory, the Civil War movie last night. The acting was superb, as was the writing, and all in all, it was a good film. I wish they had hired a better director, however, I felt that what could have been a truly epic film was crippled slightly by the director.

Duke

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."

--Mark Twain

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

--Friedrich Nietzsche

"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."

First is L.A. Story. I had seen Roxanne and liked it, and I've also seen his play Picasso at the Lapin Agile and liked it, so I took a chance on this movie, and I was blown away. It's a really wonderful romantic comedy wrapped up in an American version of Magical Realism (the primarily Spanish-language literary movement that gave us works like Jorge Amado's Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands). Martin plays a weatherman who is at the end of his relationship with his current steady girlfriend, and gets romantic advice from a freeway traffic sign which guides him through a brief fling with a young and very hyperactive young woman and finally to a long and sustaining love with a British reporter. In the meantime, it's chock full of hilarious, but loving, digs at the superficiality and mercenary nature of L.A. culture.

Then I watched a film which has as little do to with the previous one as it's possible to get: In the Company of Men. There are very few movies I would rank as being "perfect", but this is one of them. It follows the plan of Chad and Howard, two young and misogynistic men to date and dump the most vulnerable woman they can find. I'm not going to include any spoilers with this one, simply because anyone who wants to should not only watch it, but be allowed the pleasure of watching the plot unfold. However, LaBute takes his theme and runs with it to its logical conclusion, never once letting anything slip in the way of characterization or plot. Aaron Eckhart gives one of the best performances I've ever seen on film of a sociopath who doesn't have to kill anyone or even do anything illegal to be monumentally hateful and scary.

Lemme see... I watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off last week. Wonderful movie. Wonderful, wonderful, and altogether wonderful. I can't stress this enough. It's mildly camp, which, in my opinion, only adds to the humor (although it puts off some people).

Duke

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."

--Mark Twain

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

--Friedrich Nietzsche

"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."

The last film I saw at the cinema was Pan's Labyrinth and its a classic!!!
I highly recommend it.
basically it involves Spanish resistance fighters battling fascists in Spain and stealing their pasta supplies to live out in the hills - a must for all pastafarians.

[...] the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.-Darwin